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Painter Benny Andrews

In an extended interview from the Colored Frames DVD disc 2, artist Benny Andrews discusses the legacy of his work within the greater context of the African American visual arts movement.

Olympic Bronze Medalist Lia Neal & The Grio 100

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Image of the Day: The Map Back Home by Younggordon

Keija Major Conde Nast's 1st Black Editor-In-Chief

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Opera Singer Pretty Yende

Positively Black: Pretty Yende

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As Black History Month is celebrated around the world, NBC 4 New York brings you a South African soprano from The Metropolitan Opera that is making history on stage. Our Tracie Strahan has more in this edition of "Positively Black."

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Lifetime's Original Movies For Black History Month

Lifetime will premiere three movies in celebration of Black History Month. The first entitled Betty & Correta starring Golden Globe Award-winner and American Academy-nominee Angela Bassett as Coretta Scott King and nine-time Grammy Award winning singer Mary J. Blige as Dr. Betty Shabazz. The second entitled Twist of Faith stars six-time Grammy Award winner Toni Braxton, Mykelti Williamson and David Julian Hirsh. The third rounding out the original movies scheduling is entitled Pastor Brown, with Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Rockmond Dunbar, Ernie Hudson and Tisha Campbell-Martin, Nicole Ari Parker, and Michael B. Jordan.

Betty & Coretta

                                 

Angela Bassett portrays Coretta Scott King (L) and Mary J. Blige portrays Dr. Betty Shabazz in a scene from Betty & Coretta. Photo credit: Jan Thijs

Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, Betty & Coretta tells the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin Luther King (Malik Yoba) and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay Owen Pierre). When their husbands were tragically assassinated, these two women not only inherited the mantle of the civil rights movement in America, each also found herself to be a single mother who had to find a way to raise and support her children with no husband or father, resulting in a relationship like no other that spanned more than three decades.
Betty & Coretta will premiere Saturday, February 2, at 8:00pm ET/PT.

Movie Preview: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/betty-and-coretta/video

 

Twist of Faith

David Julian Hirsh (Jacob) and Toni Braxton (Nina) are shown collaborating musically in a scene from Twist of Faith. Photo credit: Ed Araquel

In Twist of Faith, Jacob Fisher (Hirsh), an Orthodox Jewish Cantor and amateur songwriter who resides in Brooklyn, New York, witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three children. Catatonic, Jacob walks out on his Jewish mourning ritual, leaving behind his Jewish garments, wallet and keys. Abandoning his identity, he wanders aimlessly, hoping somehow to understand his tragedy. Fortuitously, he lands in Brent, Alabama (population 2,500), where he is embraced by Nina (Braxton), a single mother and the lead singer of a small gospel choir (an unlikely finalist in the competition to determine the best gospel choir in Alabama), her Uncle Moe (Williamson) and their gospel community who help his return to life while music brings Nina and Jacob together as they try to make sense of his past and their possible future.
Twist of Faith will premiere Saturday, February 9, at 8:00pm ET/PT.

Pastor Brown
   
In Pastor Brown Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Rockmond Dunbar share an enjoyable evening out. Photo credit: Quantrell Colbert  

In Pastor Brown, a wayward preacher’s daughter, Jessica “Jesse” Brown (Richardson-Whitfield), returns home for the first time in more than a decade after her father (David) falls terminally ill. Her father’s dying wish – that Jesse take over as head of the Mount Olive Baptist Church – turns her and her family’s lives upside down. Jesse reluctantly undertakes her father’s commission, thereby pitting herself against her sister (Parker) and the leadership of Mount Olive Church who know of her sordid past. Through accepting her father’s request, Jesse embarks upon a path that will change her life when she reconnects with her family and estranged teenage son (Jordan) and finds the dignity and self-love she lost long ago. Pastor Brown will  premiere Saturday, February 16, at 8:00pm ET/PT.